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Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).

Dates: 2001-2012.

Incomplete manuscript of 'Waverley'.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.0
Scope and Contents

The manuscript comprises the greater part of `Waverley`. Of the parts not included in the manuscript some exist as fragments in the Library`s manuscript collection, fifteen folios are in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and others are missing.

The first fifty folios of the manuscript are on quarto paper, watermarked 1805, the rest on folio paper, watermarked 1813.

Dates: ?1805-1814.

Literary and personal papers of, and relating to, David Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13259/1-78
Scope and Contents

As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 19th century, circa 1916-1996.

Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates: 1962-2010.

Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12135/1-1062
Scope and Contents Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates: 1937-2001, undated.

Literary correspondence and papers of Mollie Hunter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11993
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts of novels, short stories and non-fiction, research notes, lectures and reviews.

Dates: 1958-2000.

Literary papers, 1970-1994, of Hamish Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11134
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts of a novel and works on mountaineering and travel.

Also included are the papers of James H B Bell, comprising photographs, 1926-1953 and undated, mostly concerning Alpine mountaineering.

Dates: 1926-1994 and undated.

Literary papers and artwork of Angela Lemaire.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13375
Scope and Contents

Literary papers and artwork of Angela Lemaire, comprising correspondence relating to artist and fine press books; typescripts of novels; sketchbooks; engravings.

Dates: 1965 - 2011

Literary papers and correspondence of Doug Johnstone.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13300
Scope and Contents

Literary papers and e-mail correspondence, 2008-2011, of Doug Johnstone, mainly relating to "Smokeheads" (London: Faber and Faber, 2011) and "Hit and Run" (London: Faber and Faber, 2012).

Dates: 2008-2011.

Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1948-1991 and undated.

Literary papers and correspondence of the novelist and biographer, Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27287-27373
Scope and Contents

Nancy Brysson Morrison was the sister of Margaret M Morrison, who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost', and T J Morrison, the novelist and script-writer. As well as publishing under her own name, she wrote numerous romances under the pseudonym 'Christine Strathern' between 1942 and 1959, but they are not represented among these papers.

Dates: 1918-1986, undated.

Literary papers, broadcast texts and press cuttings of Robert (Bob) Crampsey.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12980
Scope and Contents

With some manuscripts and papers by Alexia F McAlpine and Anne Valentine.

Dates: circa 1948-1998.

Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates: 1951-2011.

Literary papers of A L Kennedy, mainly relating to `What Becomes` and `The Blue Book`.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13284
Scope and Contents

Literary papers, c.2009-2011, of A L Kennedy, mainly relating to `What Becomes` (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009) and `The Blue Book` (London: Jonathan Cape, 2011).

Dates: c 2009-2011.

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Microfilms. 18
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Photographs. 15
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Diaries. 12
Autobiographies. 9
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Language
English 167
Undetermined 47
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Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) 9
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 9
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 8
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 5
Johnstone, Doug, author, b 1970 4
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Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 4
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 4
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 3
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 3
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
McIlwraith, Maureen (novelist, pseudonym Mollie Hunter) 3
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 3
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 2
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 2
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 2
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 2
Lemaire, Angela, artist, engraver, b 1944 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Mackay, Colin, poet, 1951-2003 2
Mair, Henry, Founder of the Scottish Open Poetry Cup Competition, b 1945 2
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Tennant, Emma Christina, novelist, b 1937 2
Thomson, David, author of "Nairn in Darkness and Light", 1914-1988 2
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Andrews, Cicily Isabel, Dame, author, née Fairfield, pseudonym 'Rebecca West', 1892-1983 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Beith, John Hay, writer, pseudonym Ian Hay, 1876–1952 1
Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Black, William, novelist, 1841-1898 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 1
Caimbeul, Aonghas Phàdruig (poet and writer) 1
Carmichael, Sir Thomas Gibson, 7th Baronet, of Skirling, 1774-1849 1
Claire, Regi, author, b. 1962 1
Columba, Saint, monastic founder, c 527-597 1
Crampsey, Robert Anthony, teacher, writer and broadcaster, 1930-2008 1
Davison, Meredith Henry Armstrong, anaesthetist and Lecturer on the History of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1911-1970 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Erskine, Charles, of Shielfield, Sheriff Substitute for Selkirkshire, 1771-1825 1
Fletcher, David, literary agent, David Fletcher Associates, fl 1979-2001 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Gordon, J M, author of "Fanny Campbell", fl 1900-1998 1
Graham, Angus, forester and architectural historian, 1892-1980 1
Graham, Maggie, author, fl 2000 1
Grant, Alan Alexander, writer, b 1949 1
Graves, Robert Ranke, poet and author, 1895-1985 1
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hendry, Diana Lois, poet and children's writer, b 1941 1
Hendry, Hamish, poet, fl 1924 1
Hendry, James Findlay, poet and essayist, 1912-1986 1
Hepburn, Thomas Nicoll, author, pseudonym Gabriel Setoun, 1861-1930 1
Horne, John, writer, 1861-1934 1
Howe, Alexia F, Assistant Keeper, National Library of Scotland, writer, née McAlpine, fl 1948-1951 1
Hughes, Edward James, poet, 1930-1998 1
Jackson, Marshall, Edinburgh, fl 1983 1
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 1
Jenkins, John Robin, novelist, 1912-2005 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Kennedy, A L, writer, b 1965 1
Kennedy, Campbell, artist, fl 1967-2011. 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Lindsay, David, writer, 1876-1945 1
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 1
MacDonald, Mary, née Doyle, wife of Thomas Joseph Douglas MacDonald, author , 1911-1999: recipient 1
MacGregor, James Murdoch, science fiction writer, pseudonym J T McIntosh, 1925-2008 1
MacLeod, Ken (writer) 1
Macdonald, Norman Malcolm, writer and dramatist, 1927-2000 1
MacilleDhuibh, Raghnall, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Celtic Department, University of Edinburgh, b 1946 1
Mackay, Charles, journalist and songwriter, 1812-1889 1
Marshak, Samuil Iakovlevich , poet and translator, 1887-1964 1
Massie, Allan Johnstone (Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist) 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McLean, Allan Campbell, novelist, 1922-1989 1
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